Blue Ridge Parkway [electronic resource] : proceedings of the Blue Ridge Parkway Golden Anniversary Conference / edited by Barry M. Buxton and Steven M. Beatty ; editorial assistant, Dana Bartlett.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Barry M. Buxton
- Keynote presentations
- The future of the Parkway / Gary Everhardt
- Environmental concerns and the Blue Ridge Parkway / Stewart L. Udall
- Future initiatives of the National Park Services / William Penn Mott Jr.
- Design and planning
- The parkway : a uniquely American construct : is it obsolete? / Frank B. Burggraf
- Stanley Abbott and the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway / Leslie Gignoux
- Stanley Abbott and the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway / Douglas Swaim
- The Blue Ridge Parkway : a catalyst for environmental design innovation / John W. Bright
- The Blue Ridge Parkway in historical design perspective / E. Lynn Miller
- The Linn Cove Viaduct / Jean Muller
- Strategic planning : the means for seeing beyond 1987 / Gary W. Johnson
- Historical
- A new deal for the mountain folk : recollections of the resettlement administration / Gwen Russell Harvey and Alice Hoffman
- I am a part of the Parkway, and the Parkway is a part of me / Diane K. Gentry
- The North Carolina congressional delegation and the Blue Ridge Parkway / Philip A. Grant Jr.
- The Blue Ridge Parkway : mileposts and more / Pamela Frye
- The early days of parkway construction / Lester P. Lamm
- Early Appalachian photographers / Richard A. Straw
- Literary and folk culture
- The road in Appalachian lore and literature / H.R. Stoneback
- Bertha Cook, Blue Ridge National Heritage fellow / Thomas McGowan
- Mabry Hill as metaphor / Parks Lanier
- The folk tales of the Eastern Blue Ridge / Jody Brown and Rex Stephenson
- The perfect work / Thomas Rain Crowe
- Environmental and economic
- The spirit of the Blue Ridge / Gilbert Leebrick
- Land use attitudes of rural residents / James E. Shepherd
- Environmental quality points / Scott S. Weinberg
- Seasonal plant color change can give the Parkway its character / J. Dan Pitdlo
- Agriculture in the Blue Ridge Parkway / William O. Hooper
- Benefits sought by Blue Ridge Parkway tourists / Mark Bonn
- National concessioner policy in transition : an example from the Blue Ridge Parkway / Robert W. McLellan and Dominic Dottavio
- Notes concerning ruins of motion machinery in the Appalachian landscape / David P. Hill
- Student essays
- Harvard of Celo / Kelly Elizabeth Draughn
- Legends live on / Claudia Suzette Deyton
- Please ... don't pick the wildflowers / Marci Ledford.